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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Some tips to share or to avoid from accidentally delete all your emails in your inbox MS Outlook. When I’m cleaning up and organizing my emails in MS outlook, I accidentally click the “Clear Offline Items” in the inbox properties page causes all my important emails are gone.

However, it can be recovered if you are using a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account in Cached Exchange mode which I believe most companies setup their outlook in this way.

So what I do is to click “Send and Receive” button to synchronize all the emails in the server back to my Outlook. This is how you can undo the "Clear Offline Items" in Outlook in case one day you accidentally click the "Clear Offiline Itemes" in MS Outlook.

Thank you. I actually clicked the question mark in the top bar of the window to get the question mark cursor then clicked the button hoping to get an explanation of what it was for... it still poofed my e-mails - damn M$thanks for the quick tip on restoring everything!

If I had any option to use software other than than the flaky inconsistent crapola that Microsoft put out (honourable exception - Excel), I would leap on it like a desert dingo on a pile of fresh offal. This post saved my life! You are a HERO!

kudus for your time and comments: I also wanna add that actually it should have been stated that the cache folder would be reloaded/refreshed, to avoid heart attack.When I made this mistake I was at peace bcos I'm a support person and I know that microsoft is always flexible with 'undo features' - I got all my messages back immediately a mail entered my box. It just auto synchronize.

Just in case it didn't look like it worked. After pressing the "Send/Receive" button. Nothing happened. I closed Outlook then Opened again, and there they were.. my emails were back.Thanks for the help.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I thought I'd deleted all of my work email from my inbox, but your blog answer came to my rescue!!! (Ummm... why can't they make that button a little bit clearer on what it means, or at least have a pop-up that asks if you really want to clear your inbox out before actually doing that??)

Good point, not really sure, it just clears the local copy of your email. Perhaps it is used when you mess up your mailbox.

Or another way I can think of is it is used when MS exchange server is configured in a cached exchange mode. Server will not keep the copy once downloaded. So this feature will clear all your emails at one shot! But isn't that I can use the delete function? lol No idea, a useless feature actually.